Biography

Reade Griffith is the CIO of Polygon’s European Event-Driven Fund and a co-founder of Tetragon and Head of its Investment Committee. He was previously the founder and CEO of the European office of Citadel Investment Group.

1983 - 1987

Harvard College. Degree in Economics, magna cum laude.

1987 - 1992

United States Marine Corps. Left after participating in Operation Desert Storm in Kuwait, as a Captain.

1992 - 1995

Harvard Law School. JD cum laude.

1995 - 1998

1998 - 2002

Citadel Investment Group. Founder and CEO of the European office of Citadel Investment Group, a multi-strategy hedge fund that he joined in 1998. He was a partner and senior managing director responsible for running the global event driven arbitrage team in Tokyo, London and Chicago.

2002 -

Co-founded Polygon in 2002 and TFM, the investment manager of Tetragon, in 2005. He is a Principal of TFM, a member of the Tetragon Board of Directors, the Head of TFM’s Investment & Risk Committee, a member of TFM’s Executive Committee, the CIO of Polygon’s European Event Driven Equities strategy, a member of the Investment & Management Committee of TCIP and Tetragon Credit Income II L.P.

2017 -

Member of the Financial Sector Forum at the Bank of England. Member of Dean’s Advisory Board at Harvard Law School.